The Water Cure vs Vermilion: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Fathers, Sisters, Fiction
The Water Cure
"An extraordinary otherworldly debut... [Mackintosh] is writing the way that Sofia Coppola would shoot the end of the world: everything is luminous, precise, slow to the point of dread." --The Guardian The Handmaid's…
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Vermilion
From the jacket From the very beginning, for Lindsay Phillips, there was the memory of that terrible cane with the dragon's head-threatening horror, torment, death. And always there was Vermilion whispering in…
The verdict
- Readers rate Vermilion highest: Vermilion 3.8 · The Water Cure 3.3.
- The Water Cure has the widest readership — 29536 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| The Water Cure | Vermilion | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 3.3 (29536) | 3.8 (1121) |
| Hardcover | 3.2 (48) | — |
| Apple Books | 3.5 (227) | 4.5 (19) |
Reception
| The Water Cure | Vermilion | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 29536 | 1121 |
| Editions | 8 | 13 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | — | 391 |
| Reading it now | — | 167 |
| Written reviews | — | 57 |
| Wikipedia attention | 30 | 17622 |
| Pages | 272 | 294 |